Clothes-rack.



UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ADAM A. IBOSCI-IIEE, OF LODI, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEeI-IALF TO CHRISTOPHER H.

SUESS, `0F LODI, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTHES-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 22, 1911.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

serial N o. 661,689.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ADAM A. BoscHnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lodi, in the county of San'Joaquin and State of California, have invented an Improvement in Clothes-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of collapsible clothes racks.

The details of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts embodying the invention are as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention extended to form a clothes-rack. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the apparatus when folded. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the inner portion of one of the hinged panels, the top portion or board constituting the panel proper being removed. Fig. 4 is a cross section on the line 4.--4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an outside view of the post or tree with the panels folded.

The vert-ical post or tree lhas ahollow rectangular body provided withlongitudinal side openings 2, and a cruciform base 3 upon which it is supported. F or-each of the longitudinal openings 2 there is provided a foldable panel 4, which is composed of an exterior portion or board, adapted, when folded, t-o fill the opening and lieflush with the adjacent portions'of the post, and an under or inn-er board arranged parallel to the outer one and separated therefrom by a space just sufficient to receive the pivoted ends of arms `5. There are three sets or groups of arms, two in each set or group, whose ends abut when the arms are extended as in Fig. 1. The arms also vary in length from the post outward, those nearest the post being the shortest and those farthest from it the longest.

As shown in Fig. 3 and also in Fig. 4, the several sets of arms 5 may be folded inward so as to lie parallel. It will be seenthat each panel 4 with its series of arms 5, when extended in the horizontal position indicated in Fig. 1, is adapted to serve as a clothes-rack, and therefore requires a support to hold it in the required position. For this purpose, I employ a leg 6 which is hinged to the outer end of the panel, on the inner side, and provided at its lower end with an entension piece or foot 6a. This leg with yits extension is adapted to be folded inward against the inner side of the panel. Thus the panel proper 4, composed of two parallel boards, t-he pivoted arms 5, and the pivoted legs 6, may be all folded together so as to occupy a small space, and then the panel whenfolded will occupy the position indicated in Figs. 2, 4 and 5.

What I claim is l. The combination with a. vertical selfsupporting post having a longitudinal opening, of a panel hinged at the upper end of said opening and adapted to fold thereinto, such panel being composed of parallel members spaced apart, a series of arms pivoted between said members and adapted to be eX- tended laterally and folded into the space between the members, and a leg pivoted to the outer end of the panel and adapted to fold upward and inward against the same and into the opening in the post, as described.

2. In an apparatus for the purpose specilied, the combination with a kvertical selfsupporting post having a longitudinal opening, of a panel hinged at the upper end of said opening and adapted to fold thereinto so as to lie flush with the outer side of the post proper, such panel being composed of two boards arranged parallel but separated by a narrow space, and a series of sets of arms pivoted between the members of the panel and spaced apart and increasing in length from the post outward, substantially as described.

ADAM A. Bosonnn.

Witnesses C. H. Sunss, R. L. GRAHAM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

